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WITCHING- HOUR
The Nocona News, Nocona, Tex., Thun^ Oct 30, IN*
For this cause we also, since the day we heard it,
do not cease to pray and make request for you, that
ye may bo filled with the knowledge of his will in all
spiritual wisdom and understanding.—I Col. 1*9.
CAN WE STAND PROSPERITY?
Historians, sociologists and experts of all kinds
will be studying the American phenomenon for cen-
turies to come—in fact, very likely for as long
as man exists on this planet. Starting from an
empty wilderness less than 200 years ago, the UJS.,
sprawled over a land area of some three million
square miles, has attained goals toward which men
have been striving for thousands of years. In large
measure, our meteoric rise is attributable to our
political system of individual freedom under repre-
sentative government The shackles of ancient tyran-
nies were left on the shores of Europe. Other factors
have also played a part in the rise of America,
such as geography and climate. Whatever the reasons
for the American phenomenon, they cannot dim its
glory. Regardless of what happens in the future, this
great human adventure, from the arrival of the
Pilgrims on the shores of New England to the land-
ing of the Astronauts on the moon, is engraved
in the record for all time.
In fun, as in work, UJS. citizens do things on an
incomparable scale. A late issue of U. S. News &
World Report describes a new phase in U. S.
living—the growth of leisure time and the develop-
ment of vast, pleasure-oriented industries. As UJS.
News & World Report puts it, leisure is now the
fastest growing business in America. In 1969, it
is estimated that UJS. citizens will spend some $82
billion to occupy their leisure time—a figure sub-
stantially higher than the outlays for national de-
fense. U. S. News and World Report breaks this as-
tronomical sum down into a half dozen categories.
These include spending for recreation-sports equip-
ment, reading matter, sporting events, etc. They
also include expenditures for vacations and re-
creation trips in the U. S., travel abroad, second
homes, swimming pools, vacation land and lots.
Since 1965, pleasure spending has risen 42 per
cent. Pleasure-oriented industries have been grow-
ing at an average rate of nearly $6 billion a year
Since 1965.
The relentless push of people to get away from
it all in the great outdoors has resulted in the pro-
duction of “vacation vehicles.” The Recreational
Vehicle Institute puts the total of such units ir
service today at about 2.5 million. Manufacturers
of campers, trailers and motor homes sold $1 bil-
lion worth of these vehicles in 1968. Another spec-
tacular newcomer in the leisure-time, recreational-
spending field is the snowmobile. Three hundred
and fifty thousand of these units are expected tc
pour out of factories in fiscal 1970 to die tune of
$380 million. Water skiing, snow skiing, tennis*
racing and other sports, too numerous to mention,
have come in for their share of attention from the
fun seekers. There are some 12 million golfers,
for example, who play regularly on about 10,000
courses. National parks are reportedly jammed tc
the crisis point, with a fourfold rise in visitors
since 1950.
; Another aspect of U. S. leisure and affluency
Is what U. S. News & World Report calls the “seconc
home vogue.” A total of 1.7 million families now
_own hideway mountain cabins or seashore residences
of some kind. The American Automobile Associa-
tion estimates that Americans will drive 225 billior
.'miles this year just getting to and from vacatior
areas. Foreign travel is another big item in the
-leisure-spending category. The U. S. Department
ef Commerce estimates that 4.2 million Americans
: will go abroad in 1969 and spend more than $S
billion. This compares to less than 2 million sue!
Z travelers in 1968. Flying is still another fast-grow-
ing hobby. It costs $750 to $1,000 to become a
7 “qualified” pilot. There are now about 750,00C
licensed pilots and 250,000 student pilots in the U.S.
On the serious side, the question that remains
to be answered is whether morally, intellectually
and spiritually we will be equal to the task ol
recognizing the dangers of leisure, as well as its
.-benefits. The history books are filled with cases
where the craving for leisure — fun and games —
has become a fatal national disease. But, what-
ever the future may hold, as UJS. News & World
Report concludes: “Behind the scenes, serving the
ever-increasing demand for the trappings of lei-
sure, are the muscle and sinew of American in-
- dustry.” These are the same muscle and sinew that
provide for national defense and the security ol
• the nation.
SPYROS S. SKOURAS, president of Prudential
Lines, Incorporated, stated: “...any vital industry
is always in a state of transition, and success lies
in riding the leading edge of change.”
THE NOCONA NEWS
Published Thursday of each week at Nocona. Texas
Entered as Second Class matter at the Post Office in Nocona
Texas, under the Act of Congress of March 3. 1879 Second
- class postage paid at Nocona. Texas 76255.
Edgar R. Hays ..... •...... Editor and Publisher
Mrs. Edgar R. Hays............Society and Personal Neers
Mrs. Zelda Robertson ......Receptionist and Bookkeeper
Mrs. Joyce Bennett........................ Justowriter
Wesley Morton ........................ Mechanical Dept
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Any erroneous reflection upon the character. standing
or reputation of any person, firm or corporation which ap-
pears in the columns of this paper will be corrected upon
due notice being given to the editor at his office. Correspon-
dence should be addressed to the Nocona New*. Box 538.
Nocona. Texas 76255
OTHER
NEWSPAPERS
ARE SAYING..
KLEPTOMANIA?
It’s a good thing Aristotle
Onassis is loaded with dough
because his wife is spending
money like it was going out
of style. Heading an account
of Jackie Kennedy Onassis’
spending habits gives us the
feeling that we are complete-
ly unaware of the habits of
the rich. We can’t conceive
of a woman spending $20
million since her marriage
last October. She walks into
any store of her choosing,
helps herself to whatever she
wants and strolls off, trailed
by servants, burdened down
with bundle s. She pays no cash,
signs no bills. Her face is
her credit card. Store owners,
recognizing the famous lady,
realize that Aristotle will pay
the bills.
She buys $1,000 and $2,000
gowns by the dozen. Her col-
lection of fur is fabulous. She
has about $5 million worth of
jewelry. She remodeled an
apartment in Greece at a cost
of $500,000, throwing out all
the expensive furniture in the
place. When she jets across
the oceans, she always buys
four tickets because she
doesn’t like to have people
sitting near her. Her husband
pays the Pinkerton Detective
Service $1,200 a week to fol-
low her wherever she goes.
And despite this massive
spending spree, despite the
maintaining of villas and cas-
tles and apartments around
the world, the instant avail-
ability of jet planes, yachts
and fast motor cars, the word
is out that Jackie is bored.
There ought to be some mor-
al here if we could just think
of it. — Harold Hudson in
The Perryton Herald.
THE TRUTH is that a ma-
jority of Americans are sick
and tired of Supreme Court
permissiveness which turns
rapists and murderers back on
the streets because of legal
technicalities and who sup-
port the “rights” of the few
to play hob with the rights
of the many .
One of the reasons for
President Nixon’s election
was the hope that as vacancies
popped up on Federal benches
they’d be filled by lawyers
rather than by socio-politi-
cians; by men who’d interpret
the law, as they’re supposed
to do, not rewrite it.
But organized minorities
who’ve fared so well under
Warren Court philosophies
are attempting to sidetrack
Haynsworth by the tired, old
character assassination
route. They fear that his taking
the bench may be an upward
step toward a rational system
of jurisprudence in which all
men get the same shake.
That’s what the shooting’s
all about.
—The Plainsman in Lubbock
Avalanche-Journal.
OUR ILLEGAL COURTS
Illinois had a state law re-
quiring motorcyclists to wear
crash helmets.
It appeared to be a good
law, being similar to legis-
lation on the same subject in
most other states—including
Texas. But the Illinois law
now has been declared uncon-
stitutional, on the grounds that
an individual cannot be forced
to protect himself.
Just how illogical can our
courts get?
We in Texotnaland, for ex-
ample, are living under laws
that affect boating—laws and
regulations that exist solely
for the protection at the in-
dividual. Life jackets are
mandatory, as one example.
Certainly this is forcing the
individual to protect himself.
Laws require all kinds at
gadgets on cars, some of which
certainly are for the protec-
tion of the individual driving
the car -hrartrests and seat
belts, for instance.
Individuals nowadays are
forced to protect themselves
in innumerable ways. The
government even takes a size-
able bite out at each pay check,
forcing the individuals to pro-
tect himself against physical
disability, and the inevitable
old age.
How any court could de-
cide that the requirement for
crash helmets, so essential
for the protection of the
motorcycle rider, is uncon-
stitutional is a bit misttfying.
Carried to its logical con-
clusion, the ruling could wipe
out a lot of our laws, both
state and federal.
But then , our courts aren’t
always logical. — The Whites-
boro News-Record.
IT’S PUZZLING
The leaning toward com-
munism by so many “intel-
lectuals” is a puzzling trag-
edy of our time. History is
packed with evidence of the
system’s complete lack of
moral or economic principle.
Documented reports by the
hundreds tell of mass murder
of political opponents, of the
horrors of slave camps, of
war time atrocities, of geno-
cide and mass starvation, of
constant fear of arrest and
torture and the slave camp and
death. Most eloquent testi-
mony of all is the report on
thousands who risked their
lives to escape.
Will someone please explain
how the self styled intellect-
ual peers could live through
recent years without becoming
aware of those facts? An even
greater puzzle: How can any
civilized person know those
facts and still support the red
system?
The problem is equally baf-
fling from the standpoint of
economics. Communism ori-
ginated with promises of a
working man’s paradise but
after more than fifty years ft
remains a system of privation.
People still have a scarcity
of food, of housing and com-
forts of life.
It started with predictions
of national greatness but its
progress has been confined
to a fifty year crash program
in military might. It still has
a miserable standard of living,
a notable lack of development
in all but the military. —
“Con” Fetti in Muenster En-
terprise.
BETTER MOLSETRAP
Well, somebody finally built
a better mousetrap and did
the world beat a path to his
door? Like heck.
A clean, noiseless, sani-
tary, humane, efficient and
thoroughly modern mousetrap
marketed by a manufacturer
in Lititz, Pa., after much ex-
pensive research, was a com-
mercial flop and “the worst
shelf warmer in the compa-
ny’s history,” reports the Fi-
nancial Times of London.
The company invested more
money to find out what hap-
pened.
It learned that housewives,
who evidently make the na-
tion’s mousetrap buying deci-
sions, don’t want anything
sleek, streamlined, scientific
and permanent looking. All
they want is something that
can be thrown away along with
the mouse.
So much for another adage.
—Wausau (Wis.) Herald.
THE AFTERMATH
What will the moratorium,
held Oct. 15, cost in Ameri-
can blood. That is an unknown
factor at this time but cost,
it will.
As one network correspond-
ent reported from Paris, there
is no hope that the communist
delegates will do any serious
negotiating with the U. S. and
South Vietnamese delegations
now or in the immediate
future. There is no percentage
in their making any attempt
to compromise with an adver-
sary that they believe to be
on the verge of collapse.
The system Itself calls for
them to continue stalling, to
refuse to negotiate while “the
progressive forces” in the
U. S. win the war for them.
The British newspaper, the
Daily Telegraph, called mora-
torium, “a spectacle to turn
the stomach—a great nation
in a delirium of treason and
shame.”
An American Seabee in
Vietnam summed up the dis-
sent most eloquently: “I think
these people are going to be
extremely sorry later on ...
if there ever comes a time
when there’s a battle or
American soil and their child-
ren have to fight it on our
home groimds.”—Cecil Wag-
goner in Claude News.
History
From the flies of the
NOCONA NEWS
NOVEMBER 3, 1944
CPL. ROY T. BROWN, son
of Mr. and Mrs. G. I. Brown,
of Shady Grove, was killed in
action on September 18, some-
where In the South Pacific.
Cp. Brown entered the Mar-
ines in October, 1942, and took
his basic training inSan Diego,
then went overseas in January-
1943.
PFC. V. W. ALLISON died
October 15, in the Hawaiian
Islands, where he had been
stationed 18 months, according
to word received by his wife.
Private Allison was known to
his many friends as “Buck”
Allison. In addition to his wife,
survivors include his parents,
who reside in Nocona; several
sisters, and two brothei s, who
served in France.
LT. ROACH ADMIRE was
-killed in action in Italy on
October 13, according to a
message received Sunday by
his wife, the former Miss
Edna Ballard. Admire was
co - pilot on a Liberator
bomber with the 15th Air Force
stationed in Italy. He had been
overseas four months and had
received theAir Medal and one
Oak Leaf Cluster. Admire was
awarded his pilot’s wings and
commission at the Blackland
Army Air Field, Waco, the
past March. He was the son
of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Ad-
mire, Bonita.
SGT. Wm. W. ANDERSON,
son of Mr. and Mrs. W.E.
Anderson, Nocona misshg in
action since September 12 was
reported killed in action over
Germany on September 12. His
wife, formerly Thurma Wayne
Cooper of Nocona received
word through the Red Cross.
The German government had
given this information to the
Red Cross. They have a son,
Robert Wayne, who will be 1
year old on November 4th.
PFC. NEWMAN F. POW-
ELL received a medical dis-
charge from the Army on Oct-
ober 13. He had served in the
South Pacific for 14 months
before he was discharged. He
is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Charlie Powell of Bonita.
MRS. DAVID SAPPINGTON
received a letter that her hus-
band, David Sappington, who is
somewhere in England, had
been promoted to the rank of
Staff Sergeant.
PVT. JAMES L. WALSER,
who is in the Air Corps,
staioned at Amarillo, spent
the weekend with his wife and
family and parents of Nocona.
MR. AND MRS. G.I. YAR-
BRO received word that their
son, S-Sgt. Edgar Yarbro, has
landed safely in England.
MR. AND MRS. JOHN D.
LAMASCUS of Route 3, re-
ceived a telegram from the
War Department that their
son. Staff Sergeant Loyd La-
ma scus was slightly wounded
in action on October 7, in
France.
OCTOBER 30, 1953
Dirt Moving Is
Begun On New
City Air Strip
Dirt moving in the con-
struction of the modern run-
way at the City Airport just
west of town was begun this
week, City Manager Bill Year-
gin told The News Tuesday.
The big dirt machines will
have the job of cutting down a
hill at one end of the pro-
posed run-way as the next step
in the construction.
Preliminary work has in-
cluded the moving of three pipe
lines, one belonging to Sin-
clair Oil, another to Lone
Star Gas Co. and the third
to The Union Gas Co. Cul-
verts have been built over
a stream running through the
run-way and condui’ for the
electrical futures has been
installed.
Engineers completed t h e
surveying and drove the stakes
some time ago. Timber has
been cleared from one end of
the run-way also.
Representatives of Wood-
ruff Associates of Fort Worth,
the City’s engineering firm,
were here Monday and Tues-
day, checking the progress
of the work.
City crews will do the dirt
work, lay the base and top the
new run-way withasphalt.The
City has a grant of $27,500
from the Texas Aeronautical
Commission to help in the
airport construction.
Youth Center To
Sponsor Midnight
Movie Friday
The Nocona Youth Center
is sponsoring a midnight
movie at the Chief Drive-In
Theatre on Friday evening of
this week, October 31st. The
gates will open at 11:30 p.m.
and the show starts at 12
midnight. Admission is $1.00
with the proceeds going to the
Youth Center.
The movie to be shown is
“Psycho,” by Alfred Hitch-
cock.
Rains Total 1.65
Inches This Week
It has rained intermittent-
ly all this week but the total
molsure is only 1.65 inches in
Nocona, according to Wea-
therman Dewey Holcomb. Ac-
cording to Mr. Holcomb’s re-
cords, .2 fell last Thursday,
.1 fell on Saturday, .55 on
Monday and another .8 on
Tuesday. It was still raining
Wednesday morning.
This brings the total for
the year to 31.85 inches com-
pared to 39.80 a year ago.
Low temperature for the
week was Tuesday morning
when the thermometer sank
to 39 degrees. High was reach-
ed on Sunday with 74.
Patronize Your
Nocona Merchants
Every fisherman knows how and line close to vour lod
badly a line tangles while you . S,mPle "
are moving from one fishing pipe .S‘«an"
snot to another. You can "rc- and line. Pipe cleaners are
vent this by wrapping the hook easy to twist and easy o undo.
SPECIALS
Plastic Spoon and
Spatula Sei
A 98c value for only —
39c
Indiana Crystal
Relish and Egg Plate
Only - $129
Mocono, Texas
E. L Covey
Box 265
Bowie, Texas
Would a bull like this one
improve your
CALF CROP?
YOU WILL FIND BIG RUGGED
BULLS AT OUR
SALE NOV. 11th
3 miles Northwest of Bowie on Highway 81
at Gilmore Sales Bam
Attractive
Hereford Farms
Route 3
Bowie, Texas
SCOTT BROS.
Phone 825-3337
QUEEN CANDIDATES FOR
Homecoming Queen are: Ruth
Janeway, Delva Wall, Carol
Ann Lindsey and Lou Ann
Milam.
YOUTHS REGISTERING
FOR DRAFT from the No-
cona surrounding area were:
Curtis E. Adkins, Bowie;
George W. Graham, Nocona;
Herbert D. Wright, Bowie;
Billie C. Bratcher, Stoneburg;
Joseph A. Wysong, Bowie;
Allen W. Byrom, Montague;
Carroll W. Bellah, Nocota;
Elgis C. Gann, Ringgold; Ray
K. Boyd, Forestburg; Dwane
D. Preston, Saint Jo; George
W. Taylor, Nocona; James
B. Doughty, Bowie; Lonnie
D. Sidwell, Saint Jo; Beau-
ford E. Carson, Ringgold;
Billy C. Lhitton , Ringgold;
Jerry W. Gaylor, Forestburg;
Billy B- Dennis, Saint Jo;
Walter L. Brewer, Nocona.
MAIN, COOKE STREET
blacktopping to be done within
a short time. Four and a half
more blocks of paving will
be completed in Nocona within
a short time, city officials
said this week as work pro-
gressed on laying a storm
sewer along Main Street, one
of the streets to be paved.
Curb and gutter work along
three blocks of Main has al-
most been completed, but
paving cannot be started until
the city completes the storm
sewer line.
MRS. CLORE CAVNESS
formerly of Nocona and now
living with her son-in-law and
daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Lynn
Henry and daughter Marsha
at Prescott, Arizona, is visit-
ing here at the home of her
brother and sister-in-law,
Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Curlin.
Saturday the Curlins and Mrs.
Cavness went to Fort Worth,
where Mrs. Curlin’s sister,
Mrs. Grady Anderson, joined
them for a Sunday visit to the
State Fair. Mrs. Cavness re-
mained with Mrs. Anderson
for a few days before re-
turning here to complete her
visit.
JOHNNY WOMBLE, 13
month old son of Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. Womble, will be sir«u-
larly honored November 3 at
Fort Worth when be will be
given official recognition as
mascot of the Fraternal Cor-
respondents club of the Grand
Chapter of Texas, Order of
Eastern Star.
BUSINESS &
PROFESSIONAL
DIRECTORY
For Fine Gifts
Watches and
Diamonds.
Watch Repair
Visit
Nocona Jewelers
Walker’s
Magneto and
Ignition Company
Registered Service
For
BRIGGS And STRATTON
IGNITION SERVICE
Electric Motor Repair
Phone 825-3753
105 Montague St.
' Cashway Supply
101 West Highway 82
Pipe Rttings
Glass and Electrical
Supplies
Hardware Items
TOMMY ATKINS, Pro^
Phone 825-3554
JACK LESH
TEXACO STATION
The best friend ynnr ear
ever bad!
UH All. TRAILERS
Continental Bus Station
311 West Highway 82
Phone 825-3817
FOR SOUND
DEPENDABLE
PROTECTION
Curlin, Sewell
& Uselton
INSURANCE
AGENCY
Foxworth-
Galbraith
Lumber Co.
Your
Homo Improvement
Headquarters
BOBBY ELDRED. Mgr.
Nocono 82S-4824
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